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    IMPROVING RUBBER FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

    LIQUN ZHANG
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    查看更多>>摘要：Why is studying sustainable materials so important? Today, global ecological balance is under threat from issues such as resource depletion, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution. We need to develop materials that are low-carbon, high-performance, durable and easily recyclable, spanning applications from packaging and transportation to electronic devices. One of the materials that needs special focus is rubber, which is ubiquitous in our life and has a big environmental impact. For example, tiny fragments shed from rubber tyres, classed as a kind of microplastic, make up as much as 28% of total microplastic pollution in the ocean.
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    A PHOENIX RISING FROM THE ASHES OF FUKUSHIMA

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    查看更多>>摘要：It has been 14 years since the devastating triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan. In March 2011, the country's most powerful recorded earthquake rocked the Tohoku region, spawning a massive tsunami, which caused the world's worst nuclear disaster of the 21st century. The region has come a long way since then thanks to recovery efforts. But it still faces huge challenges, including decontaminating land, addressing depopulation, and decommissioning nuclear reactors.
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    TRANSFORMING SURGERY WITH CELLULAR PRECISION

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    查看更多>>摘要：Surgical removal of tumours is critical to cancer treatment, but missing small fragments of cancerous tissue, which can lead to recurrence of tumours - a problem known as 'positive margins' -is a persistent challenge. "It isn't just about removing the tumour - we aim to eliminate cancerous cells as thoroughly as possible while preserving the surrounding healthy tissue," says Ying Mao, a neurosurgeon and vice president of Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, China.
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    CERN's next move matters for science and for global cooperation

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    查看更多>>摘要：Fresh from their historic discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, researchers using CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the main particle accelerator at the European particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, set their sights on an even more momentous task. They aimed to explore what lies beyond the standard model of particle physics, the spectacularly successful - and frustratingly incomplete - description of fundamental particles and the forces that act on them. And yet, more than one decade later, the LHC has found no clues of any new physics. The nature of both the dark matter that strongly outweighs the amount of normal matter in the Universe and the Higgs boson itself remain elusive. And the clock is ticking. By the early 2040s, the LHC, which has a circumference of 27 kilometres, will reach the limits of its usefulness. The question is, what should follow?
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    Track gender ratios in research to keep everyone accountable

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    查看更多>>摘要：It's no secret that women's participation in research is not reflected in the literature on a par with men's, and that other gender identities are all but invisible. The gap is particularly wide in some disciplines, notably the physical sciences (T. Berry and S. Mordijck Com-mun. Phys. 7,77; 2024), as well as at more-senior levels. But are some fields making more progress than others? If so, what can be learnt from them - and equally from fields in which trends are worsening? These are some of the questions that reporters and data analysts from Nature Index set out to investigate in their project, Nature Index Author Gender Ratio, launched in 2024. This week, they report some early results.
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    Insurance costs are spiralling because of climate change

    Scott St. George
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    查看更多>>摘要：In January, at least 29 people were killed and more than 18,000 homes and buildings were burnt or destroyed by fires in the Los Angeles area -one of the worst disasters in California's history. Insurance offers one way to support people who have suffered catastrophic losses. But insurance companies are more cautious than ever to provide aid for damages associated with wildfires and other weather-related risks. Last year, insurers worldwide paid out more than US$140 billion in claims relating to natural catastrophes, the fifth consecutive year with losses exceeding $100 billion.
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    Families are key to helping ageing populations

    Shahmir H. Ali
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    查看更多>>摘要：The United Nations estimates that, by 2050, one in six people worldwide will be aged 65 years or older, up from one in ten in 2021. Some low-and middle-income countries are expected to see the fastest increase in numbers. Nations with limited resources must adapt quickly to support the complex health needs of their ageing populations. As a behavioural health researcher in Singapore, I assess programmes aimed at preventing and managing chronic diseases. Time and again, I hear that the most powerful force in the success or failure of an initiative is the patient's family. In my view, such involvement needs to become an integral part of health-care plans for older people.
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    Research highlights

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    查看更多>>摘要：A combination of two drugs that kill off'zombie' cells can slow the decay of spinal discs and treat chronic lower back pain at the cellular level. Senescent cells - those caught in a state of permanently arrested growth - do not divide or die normally. As humans age, senescent cells build up in the shock-absorbing discs between spinal vertebrae. The cells produce inflammatory molecules and contribute to disc damage.
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    LIGHT POLLUTION THREATENS FLEET OF WORLD-CLASS TELESCOPES IN ATACAMA DESERT

    Humberto Basilio
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    查看更多>>摘要：A massive green-hydrogen plant proposed for construction in Chile could increase light pollution at oneof the world's most powerful telescopes by at least one-third, says the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the consortium that operates the telescope and will either host or operate others being built nearby. An ESO analysis released on 17 March found that light pollution would increase by at least 35% at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) - one of the most advanced optical telescopes in the world - and by at least 55% at the southern array of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), which is now under construction and will be the largest ground-based observatory for very-high-energy γ-ray astronomy (see go. nature.com/4hzoyyg). The analysis also found that the green-energy project would increase atmospheric turbulence at the telescopes and cause vibrations that will damage the sensitive equipment.
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    NIH HAS CUT ONE MRNA-VACCINE GRANT. WILL MORE FOLLOW?

    Max Kozlov
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    查看更多>>摘要：The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has expanded its cuts to science funding, terminating a growing list of research projects that now encompasses hundreds of grants funding studies on a wide range of topics - from HIV in children to reducing mould exposure and its effect on asthma. And concern is growing among scientists that research investigating mRNA vaccines might be next.
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